Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 119 Daily life

"There are a lot of sweet potatoes and potatoes at home, and the cellar can't hold them all. We have to process some of them in the near future. Otherwise, piling them in the yard won't work. The weather is getting colder and they will always freeze." Lu Chuan said.

"Sweet potatoes can be used to make sweet potato flour for making vermicelli, and potatoes can be used to make some starch, which can be used in daily cooking." Xu Han also said.

"Is the space full now? How much more can be put in?"

"It's already full. The space that was previously vacated is now filled with ginger, onions, and sweet potatoes. Once we take care of the cattle and sheep in the next two days, there will be a lot of space available!"

"Then I will start dealing with the cows and sheep tomorrow. Let's deal with these first to free up space."

"Okay, then I will marinate the chickens and ducks in the space tomorrow. They can be air-dried or stored in the warehouse. The beef can also be made into beef jerky."

"Okay, let's rest early today! It won't be easy to process meat in the next few days." Lu Chuan said.

So the two of them packed up and went to bed.

Have a good night’s sleep…

The next day, they got up together, and Xu Han took out today's breakfast from the space. It included salted duck eggs, buns and millet porridge, which was delicious and good for the stomach.

After breakfast, Xu Han helped to send the cattle to the river, where Lu Chuan processed the beef himself.

Xu Han went back home and started to pickle the meat. She first took out some of each pheasant, wild duck and wild rabbit, and cleaned them by the water in the backyard.

When cleaning, be sure to clean all the contents of the chest cavity thoroughly. There must be no blood clots or the like, otherwise the pickled meat will taste fishy and unpalatable.

After cleaning everything, it was already lunch time. I didn’t pickle a lot this time, only 20 of each kind. Although the weather is very cold now and the pickles won’t go bad, it’s still a bit hot at noon.

Let’s pickle some first. Since I eat fresh meat every day, I want to change the taste.

In a few days, in November, we will be able to produce meat in large quantities.

We pickle more now, mainly because we don’t want it to go bad and be wasted. Although the temperature in the mountains is colder than outside, it is still quite warm at noon.

Hook all the cleaned chickens, ducks and rabbits onto the rope, dry the moisture on the surface, and start pickling tomorrow.

Xu Han closed the gate and went to the river to see what was going on over there with Lu Chuan.

In one morning, Lu Chuan had processed three cows by simply peeling off the skin and dividing the meat and putting it in a backpack.

When Xu Han arrived, Lu Chuan was preparing to process the fourth cow.

Xu Han used his consciousness to spread a row of leaves against the wall in the space, and then placed the beef in piles in different positions.

The same parts are piled together, so it is easier to find that part of meat when the time comes, without having to search through it again and again.

After placing them, the beef was taken out from the basket in the space and piled together. Because time in the space is static, there is no need to distinguish them, they are all fresh anyway.

Some of the beef is still hot! They are all put in right after being processed.

After finishing, Xu Han took out lunch from the space and asked Lu Chuan to wash his hands and eat lunch first.

There is no need to rush, there is still a long way to go! Sweet potatoes and potatoes will not go bad in a short time.

After the two finished lunch, Xu Han took some beef shank home, washed it, marinated it, and cooked it. It was delicious when eaten cold.

After arriving home, I immediately went to the backyard and put the beef shank in a wooden barrel to soak in the blood water. I changed the water several times in the middle of the process until there was no blood. I will marinate them all together tomorrow.

I was just thinking about pickling some chicken, duck, rabbit and the like, and I didn’t even think about the beef!

Oh! By the way, there are also fish! You can also make salted fish, so Xu Han took some fish from the space, cleaned them, hung them on the rope to drain the water, and waited to marinate them together tomorrow.

The amount of meat pickled this time is not much, and we will pickle it in larger quantities when the weather gets colder, so it can be processed quickly.

After hanging the fish, Xu Han went to the river to help Lu Chuan deal with the bison.

It was much faster when two people worked together. They processed three cows in the afternoon before it got dark! Lu Chuan and Xu Han cleaned the cow stomach and intestines together.

Lu Chuan went to wash the tripe, while Xu Han took the opportunity to tear off the oil on the intestines before starting to work on them, otherwise the oil would be stuck with shit and would not be washable.

After tearing off the oil, it will be easy to deal with when you put the baba in. At least the butter on it is still edible, and the intestines are easy to wash and can be cleaned with just a rinse.

The intestines and stomach are both delicious, but they are too difficult to handle. They are hard to clean and time-consuming.

After the treatment, the large stone slabs used to graze cattle were also rinsed clean, and the blood flowed directly along the river, so it would not attract large animals to come here.

After taking the processed beef, the two went home together.

When she got home, Xu Han made another boiled beef dish with beef. The difference from the previous ones was that today's boiled beef finally had bean sprouts.

The fragrant boiled beef is served with rice, which is another simple meal.

After dinner, Xu Han asked Lu Chuan while drinking tea, "Lu Chuan, why don't we buy a donkey?"

Lu Chuan looked up at Xu Han in confusion and asked, "Why did you suddenly think of buying a donkey? Didn't you say before that you can't plant much land later and won't buy livestock?"

"Didn't I buy it because I didn't have that much money? And I didn't buy it because I didn't need much.

Now I think there are so many sweet potatoes and potatoes at home, and we need to make a lot of starch. If we want to make starch, we need to grind the sweet potatoes into paste. If we grind them by hand, there will be too much and we can never grind it all.

If we use a stone mill, someone needs to push the mill, and someone needs to add sweet potatoes and water. It is a waste of time for two people to do the work.

If I buy a donkey, I can do all these myself, and you can have time to do other things, like farming or hunting, right?

The most important thing is that I am a rich woman now, so the money to buy a donkey is nothing!"

Xu Han talked a lot and at the end he even boasted that he was a rich man.

Lu Chuan couldn't help but laugh when he saw it, and after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed true, there were quite a few sweet potatoes at home!

Grinding sweet potatoes is indeed a big project. When Xu Han was making konjac tofu before, it took him a long time to grind all three konjacs.

If we grind the sweet potatoes according to that method, I don’t know if we can eat sweet potato vermicelli this year!

After a little thought, I understood the pros and cons. Anyway, I am not short of money now, so why not buy something that can save time!